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CJMay 26th 2006 11:43AM

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One other thing not mentioned: if you have a Corporate IT-maintained machine, as I do, frequently you don't control your local Administrator account password. While I'm a local Administrator on my own machine, if I don't know the "Administrator" password, I ain't gettin' Recovery Console access.

So you may need one additional step to recover the Administrator password first. Download and burn the Emergency Boot CD (http://ebcd.pcministry.com/) and use it to blank the Administrator password. Then you can access the Recovery Console (and follow the other eight steps).

EBCD has several other great tools included on it, but I find I use the password editor more than anything.

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